ISTANBUL -  Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to meet with their client.

 

The lawyers of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan; Raziye Öztürk, Faik Özgür Erol, Rezan Sarıca and Cengiz Yürekli, applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requesting a meeting with their client.

 

The disciplinary punishment has expired

 

The Office of the Chief Prosecutor imposed a six-month meeting ban on September 23, 2020, on the grounds of the ‘’Road Map’’ prepared by Abdullah Öcalan in addition to his defense submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2009. Lawyers, whose applications were left unsuccessful, learned that Abdullah Öcalan was given a new disciplinary punishment last January. Although the ban expired on March 23, no positive or negative response was given to the applications made by the lawyers.

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, two of Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers, were able to meet with their clients on May 2-22, June 12-18 and August 7, 2019, after eight years.

 

No news since March 25

 

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held under severe isolation conditions in Imralı Prison for 22 years, was given the right to speak by phone for the first time on April 27, 2020. Abdullah Öcalan was once again made to talk to his brother Mehmet Öcalan over the phone on March 25, due to the growing public concerns about him. Mehmet Öcalan announced that this conversation was interrupted.